The GOP (@gop) and especially the GOP House of Representatives (@houseGOP) under the ‘leadership’ of Speaker John Boehner (@speakerboehner) have performed a remarkable feat of financial destruction to millions of unemployed and especially the long-term job seeker.

While the Senate has passed an extension of unemployment that would last until the end of May, the GOP House has decided to ignore the issue until a multitude of pet legislation is approved. They are tying the approval of the Keystone Pipeline, the gutting of environmental and safety regulations and more tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy to any unemployment extension legislation, basically assuring that the long-term unemployed will be left on their own, since the GOP wish list is so vast that any legislation would take many months to go through the approval process.

Currently 2.5 million long-term unemployed have exhausted their 26 weeks of insurance. Each week another 72,000 job seeking American families exhaust their 26 weeks of benefits. How the GOP can so casually ignore so many people who need assistance during the job search is stunning. GOP fights to the point of shutting down government to keep taxes historically low for the mega wealthy, but they are silent when it comes to helping millions of American families that are struggling in a weak job market. GOP priorities remain feed the rich and starve the poor and middle class.

GOP ignore the following damage they are causing for partisan talking points:

In a typical month last year, 2.3 million children lived with a parent who had been unemployed for 26 weeks or longer, according to an updated analysis from the Urban Institute. That represents a threefold increase over how many lived in such a situation in 2007.

Every state has seen a big increase in the percentage of children who are impacted by long-term unemployment over the last six years, but Georgia, Illinois, Rhode Island, and Washington, D.C. have the largest shares, with more than 4.5 percent of all children affected. DC is particularly bad, with nearly 7.5 percent of children living with a parent who has been out of work for such a long time.

GOP not only casually ignores the damage done to children of the long-term unemployed, but they also are abandoning soldiers sent into harms way:

The unemployment rate among veterans who had joined the military after September 11, 2001, averaged 9.0 percent last year, down from 9.9 percent in 2012, the Labor Department said. That was about 1.6 percentage points above the rate for the civilian population.

Joblessness among this group is set to worsen as the war in Afghanistan winds down. Pentagon’s proposed budget calls for the U.S. Army to shrink to around 450,000 from a war-time high of 570,000.

Yet if a few mega profitable corporations or individuals demanded a tax shelter or favorable legislation, the GOP would be there in a heartbeat to offer their assistance. When it comes to assisting children and veterans? Not so much. All you can hear from the GOP House when it comes to helping children and veterans financially harmed by the damage of long-term unemployment is the sound of crickets.

Yet GOP is fighting for billions in tax cuts that favor the wealthy:

Washington (CNN) – Republicans want to cut the deficit. And Republicans want to cut taxes. Tuesday, those two sweeping goals collided as a GOP-controlled House committee voted to advance hundreds of billions in tax cuts at the cost of adding those billions to the deficit.

The House Ways and Means Committee voted almost entirely along party lines to make six tax breaks permanent at a cost of $310 billion over the next 10 years.

People out of work for at least 27 weeks lose hope and job-ready skills. Their families face growing financial distress. And employers often look past their resumes.

The 3.45 million jobless workers in April who had been looking for a new spot for at least 27 weeks made up about 35.3% of total unemployed, a “disturbingly high” rate, said Gregory Daco, lead U.S. economist at Oxford Economics.

And while that share is down from 37.4% a year ago, it’s more than twice a rate of 17.4% when the recession started at the end of 2007, according to the U.S. Labor Department data.

The Twitter #RenewUI hashtag contains those who are fighting the GOP integrisense on extending unemployment insurance. Show your support for their efforts to extend a financial lifeline to milions of hard working Americans and their families.

Contact these GOP leaders and ask them why they fight for the few and ignore millions of long-term unemployed. Tell them to #renewUI immediately. 3 million families and 270,000 rave veterans are suffering financial harm because these GOP ‘leaders’ will not support a long-term unemployment benefit extension. No Congress has ever ended extended benefits with long-term unemployment rates this high.

If you know the Twitter handles of other GOP, please post them in the comments section.

It’s important that the long-term unemployed and those who support them are actively contacting these representatives and asking them why they are doing so much harm to so many millions of American families and veterans who are experiencing long-term unemployment.

The GOP economy of feed the rich and starve the poor and middle class.

Matt Taibbi is one of today’s foremost economic journalists who has the courage to tell the political class the truth about how the economic and judicial system is designed to be kind to the wealthy and harm the poor and middle class. I urge you to listen to his presentation. The video sound is somewhat distorted for the first few minutes, but it becomes clear about 5 minutes into the presentation.

Matt Taibbi’s new book, The Divide, is now available at Amazon:

Standing up against injustice is vital to a democracy based on the rule of law. Thanks Matt Taibbi for doing your part.

If you are having a difficult time finding a US based job, why not consider Canada? Using an employment agency helps you find a wide selection of jobs in various fields. And an advantage to working in Canada is free universal healthcare.

• One of the best education systems in the world
• Salaries exceed those of many other countries
• Canada was recently recognized as having a wealthier middle class than any other country
• Canada was rated as the #1 place to live on the planet by the United Nations
• Canada has one of the highest life expectancies
• Canada has a wealth of cultural and outdoor experiences that rival any other country
• Vancouver was rated the most livable city
• Calgary was rated the most environmentally friendly and cleanest city
• Toronto is the 5th largest city in North America and is a destination for many new Canadian arrivals
• Canada is a multicultural and diverse society

Applying for work in Canada does take a little effort. Canada requires that you apply for a working visa:

• After you receive a job offer from a Canadian employer, the employer will issue a written offer as proof the applicant is ready to enter Canada legally
• The worker must then meet a minimum set of requirements of the job and have documented proof of their experience
• Proof of identity and an application fee are other requirements
• You can learn more about the official working visa requirements at the Government of Canada website